Colleagues, it appears that we have quorum. We will be under some time constraints. We will likely be interrupted by votes.
I want to apologize in advance to our witnesses. We will try to conduct this in as orderly a fashion as we can and try to save time where we can.
The normal course is that we have witnesses read into the record their statements of up to 10 minutes, and then we go to questions from members.
I haven't been able to speak to all colleagues, but I am going to propose to colleagues that the statements as prepared and submitted be taken as read and put into the record. Rather than having the witnesses read their statements again, they would simply summarize their statements, and then we'd move to questions, all in an effort to save some time.
Is that acceptable to you, colleagues?
Mr. Picard.